Summary of Four Weddings and a Funeral

“Four weddings and a funeral”, by Richard Curtis, is a story that takes place in England. Because of weddings and funeral, generally scenes are at churches.  At this story, the main characters are Charles and Carrie. Charles had has a lot of girlfriend but he cannot find his true love until he meets Carrie. Carrie is a young American woman and she is friend of Charles’ friends. In addition, there are other characters, like Scarlett, flat mate of Charles; David, deaf young brother of Charles; Tom, not clever but rich friend of Charles; Fiona, Tom’s sister who fall in love with Charles…  Generally, they are all searching the true love; it is the problem of the story.

First chapter starts with Charles’ rush.  Because, there is a wedding of his friends, Angus and Laura. He is the best man at this wedding but Charles and Scarlett are late as usual.  Luckily, they can arrive right on time.  At the wedding, Charles sees a very attractive girl, Carrie and after he asks Fiona who she is. Then he finds a way to talk with her. At that night, they meet at The Lucky Boatman Pub and they slept. But in the early morning, Carrie have to go to America.

Second Wedding is Bernard and Lydia’s wedding. They are both friends of Charles. They decided to marry at first wedding. At this wedding, Scarlett is bridesmaids but she and Charles are late as usual. At the reception, Charles looking for Carrie, and he finds her but he learns that Carrie engaged with a man called Hamish. This is disaster for him. At the dinner, Charles has to sit with his ex-girlfriends. It will be very bad situation for him because he meets his another ex-girlfriend, Henrietta.  He succeeds that make her very upset. This wedding becomes worse than everything.  Nevertheless, end of the wedding he sees that Hamish leaves so, Carrie and Charles find a new chance for slept again.

In the third chapter, While Charles finds a free, no-wedding Saturday, he takes an invitation to Carrie and Hamish. He has to go to a shop that guests can buy presents for bride and groom. At the shop, Charles meets Carrie. They take a cup of coffee and talk about Carrie’s sex life.

Hamish and Carrie’s wedding is the third. It takes place in Scotland at Hamish’s Castle. While they listen to Hamish’s wedding speech, unfortunately, Gareth, their friend, falls unconscious to the floor.  He died. At the funeral, we can see that Charles and Tom change their ideas about marriage. Charles understands that he can get marry.

Therefore, the last wedding is Charles and Henrietta’s wedding. In fact that Charles don’t ready for this wedding. Then, he learns Carrie and Hamish brake up. He is confused. With David’s efforts he give up to get marry. After that, we see that Charles and Carrie live together without get marry and they have a son.

I think that the narrator try to tell us marriage is not important thing for true love. However, it is a beautiful part of our lives.  We cannot know when we can find our true love.